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Ricardo Domeneck

Author

Ricardo Domeneck, 2017
© Loris Rizzo

Profile

Born: 4.7.1977
Birthplace: São Paulo
Country of birth: Brazil
Lives in: Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg


Language: Portuguese
Working language: Portuguese, English, German, Spanish

Ricardo Domeneck at
stadtsprachen.de

Vita

Ricardo Domeneck is a poet, short fiction writer and essayist, born in Bebedouro, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1977. He has published six volumes of poetry: Carta aos anfíbios (2005), a cadela sem Logos (2007), Sons: Arranjo: Garganta (2009), Cigarros na cama(2011), Ciclo do amante substituível (2012) andMedir com as próprias mãos a febre (2015). His poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines in Brazil and abroad, including Inimigo Rumor (Brazil), Babelsprech (Germany), Lyrikvännen (Sweden) and Samplekanon (Netherlands). His poems have been translated, included in anthologies of contemporary Brazilian poetry and published in Germany, the United States, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Sweden, Mexico and Chile. Working also with video and sound poetry, he has performed in galleries and museums such as Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), Museo Experimental El Eco (Mexico City) and Akademie der Künste (Berlin), and he was among the poets and artists who prepared billboard-pieces for the Biennial of the Americas 2013, in Denver, Colorado. He has collaborated with Brazilian and German musicians such as Tetine, Markus Nikolaus (Lea Porcelain), Nelson Bell (Crooked Waves) and Uli Buder (Akia). With American poet and musician Ellison Glenn (Black Cracker), he runs the record label / publishing platform Gully Havoc in Berlin. A bilingual anthology of his poems was translated by Odile Kennel and released in Germany with the title Körper: ein Handbuch (Verlagshaus Berlin, 2013), and, in the Netherlands, with the title Het Verzamelde Lichaam (Uitgeverij Perdu, 2015), translated by Bart Vonck. His book Ciclo do amante substituível was translated into Spanish in its entirety by Aníbal Cristobo and published by Kriller71 Ediciones in 2014. Ricardo Domeneck lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

6 Questions

What brought you to Berlin? Love? World politics? Or was it a coincidence?

I wanted to learn a language outside the Latin realm, and the writings of Heinrich Heine, Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller had been important to me in my youth. But it was in the end love for a German citizen that sealed my fate.


What do you love about Berlin?

How one can live the life of a big city and a small city at the same time, depending on what one wants that week.


What do you miss in Berlin?

Not having to explain to people that the body and the mind are one thing.


What is your favorite spot in Berlin?

Bertolt-Brecht-Platz


Would you say you are a different person in Berlin? A different translator? And if yes, in what way?

Being surrounded by a language such as German which is so different from Portuguese has had effects on my writing, as the way people relate to the city and other people.


Which existing literary work do you wish you had written?

"Medeamaterial" by Heiner Müller, to choose a short and simple one.

Work

Publications in german

Publications in original language

Manual para melodrama

7Letras / Rio de Janeiro, 2016 novella

Ciclo do amante substituível

7Letras / Rio de Janeiro, 2012 Poetry

Sons: Arranjo: Garganta

Cosac Naify / São Paulo, 2009 Poetry

Carta aos anfíbios

7Letras / Rio de Janeiro, 2005 Poetry

Medir com as próprias mãos a febre

7Letras / Rio de Janeiro, 2015 Poetry

Cigarros na cama

Luna Parque / São Paulo, 2011 Poetry

a cadela sem Logos

Cosac Naify / São Paulo, 2007 Poetry

Editorship

Modo de Usar & Co. 4

Berinjela / Rio de Janeiro, 2013 Magazine

Modo de Usar & Co. 2

Berinjela / Rio de Janeiro, 2009 Magazine

Modo de Usar & Co. 3

Berinjela / Rio de Janeiro, 2011 Zeitschrift

Modo de Usar & Co. 1

Berinjela / Rio de Janeiro, 2007 Magazine